Living A simple green Life: More of the wonderful highlands to disappear ,please help stop this

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Welcome to my wee blog.My name is Andy ( The Dafthermit ) . For the last 20 odd years i have ben trying to get back to a simpler way of life and finally in my old bus up here in the Scottish mountains i am finally getting there. My time now is spent taking pictures of the highlands ,making films to show the world the beauty all around and writing something that has surprised me having had a few of my stories published , Having picked up a camera and laptop in 2008 i have really enjoyeed the journey the camera has taken me on again having had a couple of pictures in national magazines, last year three of ,my films where shown at the Loch Ness film festival. anyway i hope you enjoy your visit to my wee blog

love and light

Andy

Thursday, 11 November 2010

More of the wonderful highlands to disappear ,please help stop this

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Say NO to more wind farm development

Evidence shows wind farms don't work, so why force them on communities that have said they don't want them?

We don't want Corriemoillie, yet pressure is being applied and money changing hands. We don't want a massive cluster of turbines reaching 125 meters into the air, in an area of outstanding beauty.

Thanks to outstanding levels of support in protecting this beautiful area we were able to win a partial victory in 2007 campaigning against the development at Lochluichart, with the number of turbines being reduced from 43 to 17.

However, a new proposal to build, by E.ON, an adjacent 19 turbine wind farm at Corriemoillie forest has been lodged and the Lochluichart developers are undertaking a scoping exercise to extend their original planning permission. If built the completed development will become the third largest wind farm in Scotland and even bigger than the original Lochluichart proposals.
Fact Sheet available HERE

If you wish to object, you need to register your position again with Highland Council by 22nd November. (Any previous objections you may have submitted about the Corriemoillie wind farm are now invalid following the withdrawal of the original scheme by E.ON, and the submission of a new one. So your previous objection will not be recorded against E.ON's new application).

We are sure that you appreciate how vital it is preserve the landscape, habitat and economy of this unique and unspoilt area.

Send your objections to:
David Mudie.
Planning Department.
The Highland Council Headquarters.
Glenurquhart Road,
Inverness. IV3 5NX.
Or email: planning@highland.gov.uk

Planning application reference:
(Re-submission) Corriemoillie Forest Gorstan Garve. No:10/04137/FUL
A draft letter/email is available for your use HERE you may wish to use this as the basis for your objection. If you email please bcc us at stopcorriemoillie@live.com.
Addresses closer to the proposed development will carry more weight with the Council and that joint letters from one household only count as one objection - so if you have more people at your address wishing to object, please ask them to send a separate letter/email.

By registering your objection to this destructive development, you will be telling the planners, along with many others, that another wind farm in the area should not be given the go-ahead.

On behalf of Stop Corriemoillie, a group of local residents and many others opposed to inappropriate development in the Garve and Achnasheen vicinity. Our campaign is run by volunteers, who care..

Kate and Alasdair Douglas Liz & Tom Forest
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The Grimston Family
Chris & Tricia Hamilton
Susan Hopkinson
Ruari Matheson & Family
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Donald Northwood
Gill Ross
James Ruggles-Brise
The Seligman Family
Hugo & Sophie Smith
Jackie West
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2 comments:

Rivie said...: Totally understand no more wind farms destroying the beauty of the highlands, Andy.
I would advocate using a wind turbine but limited for my own use.
I don't find it necessary for the powers that be, utility companies to use and create wind farms. They make money off them here and see very little benefit for the people as a whole.
If an individual wants to harness power of wind here in U.S., they can at times face a fight to do so on a personal and offgrid level because the "money makers" want to keep it in there pocket.
Thanks for sharing this and may the breathtaking beauty of the highlands continue on.
Rivie; 12 November 2010 12:48
Dafthermit said...: Hi emmie aye same here as i also use a small windgenny .aye they will cover all the highlands not to power oor towns and villages but the cities in England madnesss; 17 December 2010 21:26

A wee film about us on STVs the HOUR SHOW click on STV logo to see the film

Andy the Daft Hermit lives 45 minutes outside Inverness with his wife Mel in an old bus parked in a layby. This current home of theirs is the longest they have ever stayed in one spot. “I’ve been travelling now 25 years,” said Andy Lowe. “Mel’s been travelling 15. One of the reasons we’ve come and stayed up here is because of Mel’s health. I wanted to bring her to the mountains for fresh air and clean water and just a slower pace of life.” Mel has had breast cancer twice, skin cancer once, and for three years believed she had bone cancer after being wrongly diagnosed. Andy’s belief in the restorative powers of the north made them pack up ‘The Black Bus’ that they live in and cross the border into Scotland. New Highland home for hermit couple Andy and Mel “I think we both believe in trying to get to a more simple way of life,” said Andy, “but it’s strange for us because we are sort of hermits, or we like to live separate, but it’s not being anti-social… it’s just the way we are that allows us to be creative.” Andy first began travelling when he left the army. Fed up with bureaucracy he packed a rucksack and left for France and has been travelling ever since. By investing any money the couple have earned into solar panels and wind generators they now live a self-sustaining existence, without electric bills, and collect rain water “straight from Heaven”. “It’s not easy,” said Mel. “There might be time when there might not be enough facilities around, but you always find a way, you know?” Rather than rejecting technology, Andy blogs about his travels online and collaborates with artists from around the world via his ‘Scratchy Heid Film Studio’, which he runs from a static trailer next to the couple’s bus. He explained his philosophy: “My belief is that if you can go through life and you drop dead and you’ve got a balance there that slightly outweighs the good than the bad, you’ve done alright. “Yesterday, with what Mel’s been through with the cancer and all that, I had a woman on one of my sites there that thanked me for the writing, for the positive things, and to me that’s worth everything. You can keep your millions, we’re not interested. That is what we do.” To check out Andy’s artwork and video projects check out his website. MORE FROM THE NORTH